To start out this college football season, ESPN flipped the script and blatantly began referencing gambling lines in their daily programming. The general consensus was, "It's about fucking time." Ironically enough, the timing coincided with ESPN's new partnership with Draft Kings and the NFL's partnership with Fan Duel. I was planning on having a hot take on the hypocrisy of allowing daily fantasy gambling on individual player outcomes while prohibiting gambling on the outcomes of actual games. It's nothing more than semantics, and Scott Van Pelt said it perfectly last night.
Here is another article on ESPN acknowledging gambling this season -
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2015/09/08/espn-college-gameday-football-gambling-wagering-odds-tv-broadcast/71897470/
Here is an article on a gambling business that was arbitrarily shut down, while daily fantasy thrives -
http://espn.go.com/chalk/story/_/id/13506773/betting-bookmaking-curious-case-betchacom-chalk
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